npm 5 fails to install aframe; doesn't follow forwards

[devpaul]

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is producing an incorrect install.

What's going wrong?

I believe npm is not correctly following forwards.

I am running npm @ 5.0.2 and when I run npm i aframe It fails:

907 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for webvr-polyfill@git://github.com/dmarcos/webvr-polyfill.git#a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d Command failed: /usr/bin/git checkout a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
907 silly fetchPackageMetaData fatal: reference is not a tree: a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
908 verbose stack Error: Command failed: /usr/bin/git checkout a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
908 verbose stack fatal: reference is not a tree: a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
908 verbose stack
908 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:206:12)
908 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
908 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
908 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
908 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
909 verbose cwd /Users/pshannon/src/DefinitelyTyped/types/aframe
910 verbose Darwin 15.6.0
911 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "aframe" "--save-dev"
912 verbose node v6.10.0
913 verbose npm  v5.0.2
914 error code 128
915 error Command failed: /usr/bin/git checkout a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
915 error fatal: reference is not a tree: a02a8089b755e7e306676030e281d81668adb87d
916 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

I believe it is because aframe @ 5 has a dependency on dmarcos/webvr-polyfill which now forwards to aframevr/webvr-polyfill.

Installed npm @ 4 and npm i aframe works fine.

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

npm i aframe@0.5.0

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 5.0.2
• node -v prints: v6.10.0
• npm config get registry prints: https://registry.npmjs.org/
• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?: OS X

[zkat]

Can you repro this with npm@5.0.4, or with the canary (npm i -g npmc@latest && npmc -v)? There's been a bunch of git- and installer-related fixes recently.

[zkat]

I can't repro this on the latest canary, so closing as fixed.